Belkasoft X Forensic vs Hayabusa

Belkasoft X Forensic acquires, analyzes, and reports digital evidence from computers, mobile devices, RAM, cars, drones, and cloud sources. Its acquisition options include DD/E01 imaging, iOS checkm8 and agent-based acquisition, and several Android methods. Analysis features include timeline and connection graph views, SQLite recovery, hash-set analysis, file carving, and picture and video analysis. The software can examine UFED and GrayKey images, virtual machines, Amazon S3-based images, Berla car exports, and data from services including Google Drive, iCloud, Microsoft 365, WhatsApp, and Telegram. Reports can be produced in formats such as HTML, XML, CSV, PDF, Excel, Word, ProjectVIC JSON, and Relativity Short Message Format. Colleagues can view shared findings with the free Evidence Reader, whether or not X Forensic is installed. The product is self-hosted and offered to government customers only. Its license is perpetual, with optional annual software maintenance and support; pricing is provided by quote. A 30-day trial requires internet access. Trial reports contain half of randomly selected artifacts, and several acquisition, decryption, virtual-machine, and command-line automation features are excluded. The company describes it as suited to digital forensic laboratories at federal and state-level law-enforcement agencies.

Hayabusa is a free, open-source tool for Windows event log forensics and threat hunting. It processes EVTX logs from one host or thousands into CSV, JSON or JSONL timelines. Analysis features include computer and event ID metrics, logon summaries, keyword pivoting, HTML summary reports and MITRE ATT&CK mapping. It supports the Sigma specification, including v2 correlation rules; the project describes its curated detection rules as numbering over 4,000. The project says its multithreaded Rust implementation can deliver up to a 5x speed improvement and describes Rust as memory-safe. Hayabusa can run live on one system, process collected logs offline or hunt across endpoints through the Velociraptor Hayabusa artifact. Results can be imported into Elastic Stack, Timesketch and Timeline Explorer, while JSON can be analyzed with jq. Special Windows live-response packages bundle the program with encoded rules and configuration files to reduce files written to the system and help avoid antivirus false positives on YAML rule files. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, but no Linux ARM MUSL binary is provided because it does not run properly. The software uses AGPLv3; detection rules use DRL 1.1.